Our products & services
Future Homes Goal: to enable sustainability in all our product and service categories
Kingfisher is helping customers reduce the eco footprint of their homes by providing innovative and affordable eco products and services.
Highlights
4,000+
One Planet Home® products at B&Q UK
5,400+
Maison Éco products at Castorama France
77%
Volume of timber sourced from proven well-managed or recycled sources
Own-label
Developing a range of Group-sourced eco products
Chemicals Policy
Conducted a Group-wide chemicals policy review
Areas for improvement
- We need to set an ambitious longer-term timber target to ensure all our timber products are sourced from proven well-managed or recycled sources. In order to achieve this, we need to take action in challenging regions and discontinue products if vendors are unable to supply sufficient evidence of the forest source.
- Implement our new Group-wide chemicals strategy across all our businesses.
Future priorities
- Reduce the cost of eco products – making a wide range of eco products affordable for the mass market.
- Incorporate sustainability into the design of all our products and packaging, not just eco products.
La Maison Éco (Eco House)
Castorama France is rolling out the Maison Éco campaign. Information is provided throughout the store, including a special merchandising display at the store entrance, posters in aisles and labels on individual eco products.
Conserving water
Castorama France introduced this innovative eco toilet which is highly water efficient because water from the sink is reused to flush the toilet. This was one of the winners of the Castorama France eco product award to encourage supplier innovation.
Saving energy
In September 2009, B&Q UK doubled its range of energy-efficient lighting and launched its first dimmable energy-saving light bulb. With over 200 different varieties of bulb, this is believed to be the most comprehensive range of energy-efficient lighting in the UK.
The issues
Find out about our progress on key issues relating to our products and services.
Product design
Packaging
Timber
Chemicals
- Page last updated 31 May 2010.
- The Group data and progress against targets within the Group CR performance section is updated annually. The latest Group CR data covers the Kingfisher financial year ending 30 January 2010 (referred to as 2009/10). The text is updated on an ongoing basis to reflect new developments.
